>Yes, really. The omitted 'author's' preceding 'style sheets' is implied.
>Whatever the author *suggests* can be overriden by _me_, the user.
Yes, but not by a style sheet unless you use !important. The browser should
provide a means to do this (both IE5, and Com4.5 do)
6.4.1
Apart from the "!important" setting on individual declarations, this
strategy gives author's style sheets higher weight than those of the reader.
It is therefore important that the user agent give the user the ability to
turn off the influence of a certain style sheet, e.g., through a pull-down
menu.
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: Sue Sims <sjacct@worldnet.att.net>
To: W3C HTML Mailing List <www-html@w3.org>
Date: Monday, September 28, 1998 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: CSS equivalent to the NOBR tag?
>Frank Boumphrey wrote:
>> ...in response to Braden's
>
>> >> Remember that style sheets are *just suggestions*.
>
>> Not really.
>
>Yes, really. The omitted 'author's' preceding 'style sheets' is implied.
>Whatever the author *suggests* can be overriden by _me_, the user.
>
>> A conforming browser should do what it is instructed to do by
>> the style sheet, in the spirit of "Ours not to reason why, Ours just to
do
>> and die" (The charge of the light brigade)
>
>A conforming browser should do what it is instructed to do by the
>*user*, whether that is via a user style sheet or user preferences.
>Anything else is just a *suggestion* by the document author.
>--
>Sue Sims
>http://css.nu/
>
>